Would take a red card in first ten mins to lose. We could probably survive missing our least replaceable players Henshaw and L McGrath for the game

C'mon- Luke is not irreplaceable. JGP did it very well yesterday and does so most other weeks, when called upon. Of late McGrath may be marginally ahead on form, but let's not over promote... yet anyway.

Would take a red card in first ten mins to lose. We could probably survive missing our least replaceable players Henshaw and L McGrath for the game

C'mon- Luke is not irreplaceable. JGP did it very well yesterday and does so most other weeks, when called upon. Of late McGrath may be marginally ahead on form, but let's not over promote... yet anyway.

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IMO McGrath is miles ahead, gets backline moving much better (by passing in front of receiver)

JGP to channel my inner Liam Toland is a charge by light cavalry to break a fleeing or close to fleeing enemy

When he spreads his legs like that youd need dynamite or the Highland Light Infantry to shift him.

Would take a red card in first ten mins to lose. We could probably survive missing our least replaceable players Henshaw and L McGrath for the game

C'mon- Luke is not irreplaceable. JGP did it very well yesterday and does so most other weeks, when called upon. Of late McGrath may be marginally ahead on form, but let's not over promote... yet anyway.

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IMO McGrath is miles ahead, gets backline moving much better (by passing in front of receiver)

JGP to channel my inner Liam Toland is a charge by light cavalry to break a fleeing or close to fleeing enemy

JGP reads the game really well and this allows him to support breaks. He was the guy on Ringrose's shoulder before he dummied and went himself. If he's not there, it becomes a hell of a lot harder for Ringrose to continue on.

Both our scrummies have different strengths. I'm very happy with where we're at in terms of 9 stocks

There’s life in the old Pro12 yet. Barely. This semi-final will struggle to fill the Ballsbridge arena with only 16,000 tickets, including those notoriously weather-influenced season ticket holders, flogged thus far.

With cranes dominating the Dublin skyline, while this penultimate game for the secondary trophy on offer fails to capture the imagination of the Leinster rugby-set, who love their Lyon sunshine, the good times are clearly back again.

There’s life in the old Pro12 yet. Barely. This semi-final will struggle to fill the Ballsbridge arena with only 16,000 tickets, including those notoriously weather-influenced season ticket holders, flogged thus far.

With cranes dominating the Dublin skyline, while this penultimate game for the secondary trophy on offer fails to capture the imagination of the Leinster rugby-set, who love their Lyon sunshine, the good times are clearly back again.

Just read that... and then gave up on the rest of it. He really does have a massive chip on his shoulder.

There’s life in the old Pro12 yet. Barely. This semi-final will struggle to fill the Ballsbridge arena with only 16,000 tickets, including those notoriously weather-influenced season ticket holders, flogged thus far.

With cranes dominating the Dublin skyline, while this penultimate game for the secondary trophy on offer fails to capture the imagination of the Leinster rugby-set, who love their Lyon sunshine, the good times are clearly back again.

Utterly appalling. I assume he was completely silent when Munster filled Thomond Park about twice in the space of four seasons.

"This is breathless stuff.....it's on again. Contepomi out to Hickie,D'Arcy,Hickie.......................HICKIE FOR THE CORNER! THAT IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So much of what he writes implies that he hates the people who read it. Combined with the fact that he offers no insight whatsoever I don't see why he doesn't try and find a different job that makes him/us happier.

LeRouxIsPHat wrote:So much of what he writes implies that he hates the people who read it. Combined with the fact that he offers no insight whatsoever I don't see why he doesn't try and find a different job that makes him/us happier.

I said the same thing on Blues Talk a few weeks ago, a large proportion of the Irish rugby print media seem to actively dislike the sport, its participants and its supporters.

There's a wee bit of an elephant in the room around our crowds this season. The good times are back, some nice rugby being played and young guys coming through, yet afaik crowds haven't really increased and we've rarely had a full house.

Do marketing/PR team need to take a bit of ownership of this?Do the Aviva games actually play against us now in that they attract all the fairweathers in one go and then they don't attend the other games?Will the new facilities in the pipeline have an impact?

Certainly on the face of it the only pro team in a large capital city should be capable of pulling in more than 16k for a home league semi.

It's still nonsense to be having a pop at the fans though. I mean he actually slags off people for making the trip to Lyon. Did he look at the fans at the Clermont game and just think "you wouldn't see all of these in the RDS" instead of it just being great support? What a prick.

LeRouxIsPHat wrote:It's still nonsense to be having a pop at the fans though. I mean he actually slags off people for making the trip to Lyon. Did he look at the fans at the Clermont game and just think "you wouldn't see all of these in the RDS" instead of it just being great support? What a prick.

When one match a season Leinster fans travel well, they're disinterested D4 knobs looking for some beer and fun. When Munster fans do it, they're the best supporters in the world, salt of the earth liginds.

"This is breathless stuff.....it's on again. Contepomi out to Hickie,D'Arcy,Hickie.......................HICKIE FOR THE CORNER! THAT IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!